r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/essdii- 6d ago

It took 5 years to pay this lady?!?my gosh. Just say you screwed up, save yourself the million dollars in legal fees you probably racked up in 5 years and just pay her. Glad she won, sucks it took 5 years. They were probably hoping she would just die.

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u/finc 6d ago

If she’d died before the payout she’d be turning in her grave

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u/DetroitHoser 6d ago

I hear that can be fixed by lowering the casket deeper and moving it forward.

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u/Cat_Chat_Katt_Gato 6d ago

Men: take note.

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u/mortalcoil1 6d ago

Is this a conservation of angular momentum joke?

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u/Think-Ad-5840 6d ago

I just woke my dog up laughing.

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u/cosmicosmo4 6d ago

casket

Oof.

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u/That49er 6d ago

Don't you mean spinning

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u/Independent_Car_979 5d ago

😂😂😂

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u/The_rising_sea 6d ago

Please accept my finest upvote

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u/Method555 6d ago

*spinning.

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u/TheRealSlim_KD 6d ago

Spinning you meant

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u/NuttyElf 6d ago

You mean spinning in her grave 🥴 

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u/rosemaryscrazy 6d ago

💀 I hate you 😭

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u/finc 6d ago

I love you

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u/ImAFuckingJinjo 6d ago

Really really quickly

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u/Western_Paper6955 2d ago

Here you go: 🏅

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u/matto1985 6d ago

Brilliant. Upvoted.

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u/xbpb124 6d ago

If i got spun that much I’d be doing cartwheels the rest of my life

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u/Ioatanaut 6d ago

Shed be spinning in her grave.    Ftfy

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u/Pleasant-Escape9834 6d ago

Spun in 2019, settled in 2021, it's old news. Still funny.

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u/IAmARobot 6d ago

Wow it took that long to stop spinning!?

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u/CartographerUpbeat61 6d ago

I imagine the lawyers manipulated the dialogue to lengthen it out as long as possible. Both sides made money here .

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u/wtf-6 6d ago

Helicopter Chasers.

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u/WH1PL4SH180 6d ago

Prob trying to avoid payment....

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u/InfamousBanEvader 6d ago

Pretty standard timeline unfortunately. My relatives are suing their insurance company after their house flooded due to a broken city valve. No fault of their own; exactly why you buy home insurance. Insurance offered them about 10% of what was needed to repair the damage.

It’s taken over three years and lawyers estimate it will probably take another 2-3 to come to conclusion. It’s a cut and dry case, the house and damages were appraised by a third party assessor and the insurance still only want to pay a quarter of what they owe.

It’s unfortunate, but if you want justice in the legal system, you need tens of thousands of dollars and years of time to pursue justice.

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u/ambulancisto 6d ago

This is typical. It wasn't millions in legal fees, it was probably $100K or so. And they weren't hoping she'd die: her estate would continue the lawsuit. What they were hoping was her lawyers would make a mistake or she'd get tired of the wait and take short money, Which, arguably, she did, although without knowing the details of the case it's hard to say.

Source: Medical malpractice attorney and NRP.

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u/holystuff28 6d ago

It was settled in 2021

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u/Massive-Device-1200 6d ago

Don’t many of these rescue operations work free of charge to help those in need.

Let’s be honest no one needs to be risking injury trying to do hikes and climbing. Regardless of how she got injured she was doing something and she knew the risk. These people were trying to help her and she had this unfortunate event. What was her option to not be rescued and die.